Word: painterly
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...they slept and surrendered without a struggle, but in Sydney's southwest, Omar Baladjam allegedly shot at police when confronted walking near the Green Valley Mosque. Police say he pulled a handgun from his backpack and fired, wounding an officer in the hand. Police returned fire, hitting the spray painter and sometime television actor in the neck. A few suburbs away, police called in a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera to help locate father of five Mohamed Elomar, who hid in a park near his home in Condell Park. On Nov. 11, 25-year-old Izzydeen Atik was arrested...
...clearly not Kansas when Dorothy dons Balenciaga. Pride & Prejudice star KEIRA KNIGHTLEY and minimalist painter BRICE MARDEN are part of an Oz-themed pictorial in next month's Vogue. Annie Leibovitz also shot painters Jasper Johns and John Curren as the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man. Aren't artists supposed to be prickly, reclusive and, you know, serious? Not when Annie's folks call. "They just told me to bring hats," says Marden, a friend of Leibovitz's. "It was easier than a Gap ad I did once...
...hard to pin down: he does work in traditional media like illustration and cartoons but also uses more eccentric forms like painting on canvasses shaped like everyday objects and drawing on stickers rather than in a sketchbook. Nor is Frey what he calls “just a painter of ideas”—as a young artist skilled in many different areas, his main goal is simply to try out different techniques and define his artistic identity. His website, www.karlfrey.net, provides an interesting visual insight into his varied work, as well as exhaustive work statements that attempt...
Trained as a painter, Orth got her Ph.D. at M.I.T.'s Media Lab, where she had an epiphany: "I thought, Wouldn't it be cool if you could make clothes that compute? There was something magical about that," she says. That led Orth to a jean jacket with a built-in synthesizer and a keypad embroidered on the lapel. Pressing different places on the jacket changes the electrical charge on the metal fibers and creates sounds...
...start until she was 65. As a teenager, she haunted the jazz clubs of New York City. Billie Holiday once encouraged her to try singing and gave her the name of an agent. Reiner didn't think she was "special enough" to be a singer. Instead, she became a painter so she could work at home while raising children. In 1980 Anne Bancroft, a friend, gave her a small role in the film Fatso. "I took some classes in acting. I studied with Lee Strasberg and other people," Reiner says. "But I realized what I really knew...